In the wake of Bernadette's husband's death, Tick agrees to do a drag gig for his estranged wife in Alice Springs, bringing Bernadette and Adam along with him. Along the way they crack stereotypically cutting jokes, reveal secrets about themselves, drink themselves stupid, party with a camp of Aborigines in the desert, meet an Asian woman with interesting talents and pick up her repairman husband Bob for the ride, experience intolerance and danger from violent locals, and, of course, practice their drag show.

A year later Hollywood would tackle the same basic premise in ''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar''

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* AccidentalMarriage: Bob married Cynthia, an Asian sex performer, when he was drunk and had no memory of having done so when he woke up the next day.* AccidentalMisnaming:** Adam's teasing of Bernadette, calling her [[spoiler:Ralph]]... until she finally snaps and beats him up. ** Incidentally, calling ''any'' {{transsexual}} by their birth name is definitely not advisable. Not only ''will'' you piss them off, you may well be putting them in danger. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.* AgentPeacock: Bernadette* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: The stage musical.* AmicableExes: Tick and Marion.* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Cynthia speaks Tagalog but her cassette tape has Japanese written on it...* AttractiveBentGender: Adam is surprisingly attractive when he dresses as a woman without the over-the-top drag makeup.* AustralianMovies * BadassGay: Bernadette, who hints she's had some military in her past life.* BedouinRescueService: The Aboriginal camp.* BerserkButton: Do not call Bernadette by her birth name of [[spoiler:[[AccidentalMisnaming Ralph]]]]. Just don't. * BiTheWay: Played with. [[spoiler: Tick and his wife, Marion are both bisexual. He denies it though to fit in the drag queen subculture.]]* BrickJoke: When the trio launches ''Priscilla'', their going-away party drowns out a ceremony announcing a girl who plans to run across Australia. The girl shows up twice later in the film, once just after the bus takes a short cut, and again when she runs ''right past the group'' and takes no notice of them.** Early in the film they found a hideous dress among the luggage, put it in a blowdoll and tie it to a kite they fly to pass the time, after the credits we see the kite, blowdoll and all, landing on a Japanese temple near a monk.* {{Burlesque}}: Cynthia. Ping pong balls are involved. (Let's leave it at that.)* CampGay: '''Adam'''. And Tick as well, but much less so.* CastFullOfGay* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Adam threatening to sing.* CostumePorn: The musical, which won a well-earned Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume.** The musical?! THE MOVIE! It won the Oscar for best costuming and the designer received her award in a dress she made out of her old [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/American_Express_gold_card_dress.jpg American Express cards]]!* CreatorCameo: Director Stephan Elliott appears as the doorman greeting the drag queens at their hotel resort destination.* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Bernardette (Of course) once makes the threat "I will punch in your face so hard yo'll need to stick a toothbrush up your ass to clean your teeth."* DeadpanSnarker: The above quote is just one of many of Bernadette's wonderfully bitter and snarky lines.* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler:Adam's uncle in the flashback.]]* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Tick.]]* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Subverted. [[spoiler:Just the suggestion of Felicia being raped by a homophobic man is horrifying. Luckily, Bernadette saves him with the GroinAttack.]]** Played with in a flashback, where Adam's uncle tries to molest him. The build-up isn't played for laughs at all and is genuinely disturbing... cue an ingenious GroinAttack by young Adam, and cut back to the bus where Adam and Tick are cackling their heads off.* DragQueen: Take three guesses, you'll probably be correct on all of them* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Bernadette's given name is Ralph.]] Though more like insulting and hurtful first name; [[spoiler:her name is Bernadette]].* FlashbackCut: Used at various points for the main trio's histories. Also for Bob.* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: [[spoiler:Tick tries to dress macho in Alice Springs in front of Benji, wearing a long-sleeved khaki shirt and a cowboy hat. Marion makes fun of him.]]* FreudianExcuse: Subverted with Adam. As the flashback progresses, it seems that Adam will be traumatized by his uncle tricking him into giving him a handjob as his uncle takes a bath...but instead of reaching under the water for his penis, Adam pulls the plug on the bathtub, sucking his uncle's balls into the drain. When the uncle tells him to get help, Adam just screams "No!" in his face.* TheFullNameAdventures* {{Gaydar}}: The trio detect that one Aborigine man wouldn't mind being a little fab. They're right.* GroinAttack: Not only funny, but one of Bernadette's many [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].* [[TheHecateSisters The Hecate Drag Queens]]. Felicia is the girl, Mitzi is the mother, Bernadette is the crone.* HisAndHers: Upon learning that Tick is married, Adam says that he "would have bought you a lovely matching set of Hers and Hers bath mats." * IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Felicia agrees to go along on the road trip because of a lifelong dream to "stand on top of Kings Canyon as a queen". Bernadette summarizes this as "a cock in a frock on a rock".* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: And lots of them. It's really quite impressive seeing Felicia outrun the thugs for a while in that tight dress and high heels (and on drugs, no less).** The only Oscar the film won was for Costume Design, and the only Tony the musical won was for...Costume Design.* {{Jerkass}}: Adam has her moments.* LandDownunder* LaughingMad: Adam, running for his life from a pack of very pissed off hard men in Coober Pedy, laughs hysterically.* NoBisexuals: Averted: [[spoiler: Tick's wife Marion, and Tick himself (though he denies it).]]* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted in universe. Bernadette is obviously not that young, nor really is Mitzi. Hugo Weaving was only 34 when the movie was made, but [[PrematurelyBald male pattern baldness]] made him look considerably older. * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bernadette is quite obviously based on transsexual former Les Girls performer Carlotta. ** Tick is based on Cindy Pastel, a famous drag queen from Sydney. [[spoiler: Like Tick, Pastel was married with children but attempted to keep his bisexuality as secret.]]* PimpedOutDress: So. Many. Dresses.* PlotDrivenBreakdown* PopCulturalOsmosis: For a film about three drag queens on a road trip through the Australian outback, this is a surprisingly well-known movie.* PowerTrio* RoadTripPlot* SceneryPorn: The movie is full of it during the three protagonists' trip towards Alice Springs. Combines this and CostumePorn during the climb to Kings Canyon. * ShoutOut: Hugo's prancing in a green dress as rescue arrives is said to be one to ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' on the director's commentary.* StageNames: "Mitzi Del Bra" and "Felicia Jollygoodfellow", obviously. * TheStinger: After the credits, we see a monk in a Japanese temple, where the kite and blowdoll seen early in the film finally land.* StraightGay: Tick falls somewhere between this and CampGay.* {{Transsexual}}: Bernadette.* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot* TravelMontage: Used for comedic effect when Tick and Adam sing songs in a montage, only for it to be revealed at the end of it that they've only been traveling for four hours.* UnlimitedWardrobe: The girls seem to be carrying a whole lot more fabulous outfits than they'd need to set up even the most decadent of shows, perhaps that's why they wear them almost every second possible.* VitriolicBestBuds: The main characters play some really mean pranks on each other and throw insults in pretty much every line, but they also care for one another a lot.* WholesomeCrossdresser: If you can call these three "Wholesome;" they're not {{Creepy Crossdresser}}s, at least.** Well, two. Bernadette is a trans woman, therefore it's not really crossdressing.* YourMom: Tick says to Felicia, "Is it true when you were born the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?"----